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Position paper " The Brain as the Actor: How Predictive Processing Creates Conscious Experience " (Google Doc version) (PDF version) (EPUB version) This paper concentrates on Consciousness itself. It is neither an illusion nor an insoluble problem. This is the current revision of a life document. The documents below are precursors of a definitive preprint paper about consciousness that will include the role of language. It rest on the following insight. Our reality is the result of many turns of Hofstadter's strange loop that enables a system to learn experiencing its own reality. This works by correlating internal actions and external perceptions that results in unity Bayesian certainty of being an agent, just like being certain of any other perception. We are immersed in the unmistakable experience of the Self. Without symbolic language human reality as we know it would not be possible. The identity of a quale can be a subs...